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do you think it is fair for maryland and virginia people to be taking up spots
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Anonymous
I did know this when we purchased the house. What I am at fault for is assuming that we would be able to get our child into a private school. 100% my fault. Now, I have no options. |
Anonymous
try metropolitan methodist....i think they have openings for prek. fantastic teacher for prek. it is in nw dc. nw dc has many great public elementary schools. where are you located that you don't have a good public school? just curious. |
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Come on people, this is ridiculous. First of all, public schools in Washingotn are not all terrible. Just to list a few excellent ones that are equal to those in North Arlingotn and Montgomery county: Horace Mann, Key, Janney, Lafayette, Oyster, Hyde, and several charters. Several take out-of-bounds kids so look into that. Secondly, if you dont get in to a single indep. school, well, keep trying. We know people who have stayed on top of admissions offices at multiple schools and got in to one at the 11th hour (seriously, in August) and it was one they did not initially apply to either. Dont give up. Lastly, if you have to move for your child's education then so be it. Isn't that the whole point of this angst anyway --- doing the best you can for your child?
Listen, I get the whole attractiveness of private school and as far as I am concerened its not just academic, its many many others things as well. But, not getting in for PK or K is NOT the end of the world. You just open your mind up, step out side the box and keep trying. Yes, it sucks but its also real life. Penalizing people because the live in the "wrong place" such as MD or VA is the same as penalizing people, for religion, skin color, ethnicity, gender, class, or anything else. Its wrong. |
Anonymous
| It is 100 percent fair, but it is an unfortunate situation. I (and my neighbors) would be in favor of anything that would keep the suburban Suburbans off our far too narrow roadways. |
Anonymous
Is it the three-day or five-day program that has openings? Or both? Thanks! |
maynie
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Whoa this is incredible. Who knew some people in the district had such animosity towards people from MD and VA? It 's just hard to understand considering how much all three areas are intertwined and rely on each other. Seriously, you never leave the district for anything? As for the Suburban comment, you hate all of them? Or just the ones without DC plates? Is this a common way to feel for district residents? |
Anonymous
No Maynie, its not common. Some people just want to find any reason to look down on someone else. You know that, remember high school? Just as clothes dont make the man neither do addresses. 
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It is funny, I used to be a 'holier than thou' on the SUV thing, but when I started car pooling (with the younger child in tow), I realized there was no way to get all of the car seats and boosters in my old car, so if I wanted to participate in pools, I had to get something with a third row.
I am still not a big fan, but I certainly understand the issue better, and it is something I am going to have to deal with for the next 12 years. Looking forward to my 2020 Prius! |
maynie
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Well that's good to know. Yes, I remember the high school days well. Everything was a life or death issue. Too bad there was no way to know then that none of it matters once high school is over. Thanks for your answer. Sorry to go off topic. |
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"Whoa this is incredible. Who knew some people in the district had such animosity towards people from MD and VA? It 's just hard to understand considering how much all three areas are intertwined and rely on each other. Seriously, you never leave the district for anything? As for the Suburban comment, you hate all of them? Or just the ones without DC plates? Is this a common way to feel for district residents?"
Yes, we leave this district sometimes. But not everyday to work and go to school. And if the folks in VA and MD didn't fight paying taxes here for working here and supported statehood so we had more of a say over "fixing our schools" as you so easily say we should -- well then, perhaps there wouldn't be so much animosity. Plus, we didn't all just move here. We are not all rich and snobby as you tend to think. Some of us grew up here, call it home, and that is why it is harder to leave. I'll get off the soapbox now. |
Anonymous
I'll be leaving DC even less now that we have a Target!!! I do agree that MD and VA residents (working in DC) get off very easily. You use our roads and resources, yet don't pay the income tax or road/commuter tax that helps to support this city. |
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I would like one of these district residents who feels that "public school is just not an option" to enlighten us rubes in the burbs as to exactly why they are not an option. Why do you adopt a superior attitude about living in the city, but refuse to consider sending your kids to your neighborhood school?
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Are you aware that DC proper accounts for only about 25% of the region's jobs? And that over 12,000 DC residents work in Arlington alone? So its not all one-way here....we're a region. And yes it would be nice if the jurisdictions worked together, but thats life in our screwed-up region - I don't see DC residents doing much to encourage the metro expansion.
Did you know that there are people who are struggling to stay in the Northern Virginia and Maryland neighborhoods they grew up in too? Economic growth has a price for all of us! And apparently some DC residents even venture to send their children to Country Day School or the Potomac School, or even to Norwood, despite there being a state line in the way! |
Anonymous
| We were young(er) when we bought our house in DC, at that time we still got pissed when people asked us when we were going to have children! We knew the public schools were not great, and it was not easy to get into the good ones, but we thought we would be able to work it out! Flash forward to present day, we have one kid and we realize NOW, that perhaps we should have moved to MD instead. It is a HUGE deal that we have very little say in the ruling of our little district and the taxation without representation thing is not just a slogan for our license plates- it is real. So when people say, why don't you do something about the DC schools I wonder if they really even understand how powerless DC residents are. It just makes you mad sometimes, perhaps it is not rational! I just am sad that if my child does not get into a private school, we will have to leave DC. I am not angry at MD or VA residents, although I envy the people who had the foresight to move to a great school district. I just thought (foolishly) that private school would be an option and we would find a way to pay for it, and now after reading about all of these people who didn't get in, I realize we were naive. |
Anonymous
Presumably it's okay for those who live in the District to drive Suburbans? I live in Maryland and drive a Prius. Now can I come into the District? 
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